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Gary Neville

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“From a media career, which can sometimes obviously be in London, but they're all in Greater Manchester in Salford, Trafford, Manchester Centre, and I feel very focused around my investments in that. Some people would say that's naive, you should expand beyond Greater Manchester. No, I'm passionate about where I come from, where I live, and I want to invest back into that part of the country. So the two hotels, the football club, the big developments that we're doing, the university, Project Management Consultancy, all of them in Greater Manchester, and I want to continue to do things. I don't think I'll do many more startups, although the overlap is a startup, but just startups are hard. Do you think startups are hard?”
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“To say I'm an entrepreneur. No, never. No Neville, CEO and Entrepreneur. No, Darren Neville, chairman of the Relunders Group and Entrepreneur. No, it makes me sort of skin crawl a little bit. But I think to be fair, probably I should start calling myself that because I do have, there is one constant. They're all in Greater Manchester.”
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“Not really no. I suppose it's like broadcast. I don't like the word broadcaster. Maybe it's like maybe that is an insecurity actually or a vulnerability. People say to me, you're a broadcaster, but I say, I don't feel like a broadcaster. I don't feel like I've earned, you know, I feel like Martin Tyler or Des Linham, they're broadcasters. journalists their experience they do it i don't feel like a broadcaster because i still feel young but i'm not young anymore that really in terms of i've been doing it now for 11 12 years and same with entrepreneur if you i always feel there's something a little bit can i swear It feels a little bit wankerish.”
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“City have done brilliant things. Pep Guardiola is a genius. The football is mesmerizing, the operation is slick. I say this because it will bring Criticism from probably some football fans and certainly from Manchester City fans, it will never, ever be Manchester United. And that's not arrogance. It just cannot be. Manchester City. It could never replace Manchester United in terms of scale and size. It can win trophies. It can win more trophies, but it can never be bigger in scale and size. It's impossible. It does not have the roots, the history. It just does not have it. Manchester United is too set. We'll see. I'm not worried about the long term. I'm very worried about the short term.”
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“Finishing the bottom half of the table So we are starting to think that way, but I've no doubts it's going to return. It's too big. It's too good. Fan base is too great. It's enormous. I've been abroad and watched seeing 50,000 people watch us train in Thailand and in Malaysia and in Singapore. And I've seen Manchester, the passion still for the club is huge. And so it's still full now.”
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“Everybody that I've spoken to was like, I've not seen too many things like that in 30 years of Premier League football. And actually. I never want Manchester United to lose, but actually it could have been an important moment and a big moment where you actually start to think like you're thinking. People have said, could we be relegated? I said last night on television, if we bring poor players in in this next couple of weeks or don't bring players in, and Christiano does leave, which I think he may, we could finish in the bottom half of the table. With a 1.25 billion pound transfer spend in the last eight to ten years.”
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“Now taking dividends out of the club. They're taking big, large payments in debt out of the club or interest payments on the debt out of the club. All the money that the club generates, to be fair, is not going back into the club. And it's now come home to roost. They only own 69-70% of the club and they need a billion quid to be able to fulfill those infrastructure projects that are needed. Walls are closing in on them. And they do need to do something big through partnership or through an investor or through a sale in the next, I think, six to 12 months. This cannot go on. That was a watershed moment at Brentford on Saturday. We were all experiencing in that stadium, and I didn't obviously know you were in the stadium at that time, but now I know you were, and you said you were just compelled to stay because you couldn't leave.”
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“Is not going away. It's too big. It's too big. It's too magical. It's too good. That is not emotion. That is just, I feel very, very strongly about that. There is an element of cycle here that we get in sort of our down period. But we shouldn't accept that. Because I'm happy to lose football matches. I'm happy to be fourth in the league, third in the league, sixth in league. If we're doing the right things. Have we got a world Manchester United should always have a world-class stadium? It hasn't. It should always have best in class training facility. It's always our best-in-class fan experience. It should always buy the best being for the best players in the Premier League. It should always have young talent coming through. You should always buy young emerging talent from overseas. It's veered away from all five or six of its key principles and objectives that it's always ever had. Any business does that, then it's in trouble. You've got owners that, to be fair.”
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“But we had obviously the Busby babes period with Samat Busby. Then we had 30 years, 25 years before Sir Alex brought home a league title. So we've had 25 years before that we've gone through without success. Manchester United.”
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“Now, I'm convinced Manchester United will return, absolutely convinced. Not arrogance, this, and it's not because I'm biased and it's not because I've gone to watch the clubs since the age of five. I've travelled around the world with the club for the last 30, 40 years. I've Seen the extent of the fan base, the emotion that exists within the fan base, the scale of the club. And the foundations are too deep”
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“If I put us in the top four every, I did it last week in my predictions. But do you know something? I know full well we're not going to finish in the top four, but I have to just because it's the Manchester United inbuilt thing that you say we're going to finish in the top four. But that's how our expectations have dipped as well because we used to say we're going to finish top.”
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“Then obviously I had a brilliant manager. I had a brilliant senior players. I had good parents. Everything was right in my life to influence me to be what I am today. Without that, I'm not the person I am. I wasn't Gary Neville resilient, tough, mentally strong, could handle anything, better work ethic than anybody else when I was 10. I wasn't. I was a kid, just to be fair, going to school like everyone else. But I had exceptional people around me, I believe, that helped me. And I don't believe these lads now in that dressing room have got that around. They haven't got that around them.”
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“Actually, we were heavily influenced by the people that we come into contact with. And that's where your look comes in in life because I can't choose who I come into contact with in life. You walk into a business to take a job. You don't know the other 150 people in the business. There could be some really good people in there that influence you well and make it really comfortable for you. There could be some bad eggs that mean that you act to have a bad experience and it influences you in a different way. I just got really lucky throughout my career that I arrived at United when they started winning the Premier League.”
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“With Dennis Irwin and Tricks Ferguson and Roy Keene and Mark Hughes and Brian Robson, who don't get me wrong, they like to night out, but they knew also that that had to come at the right time and they would be responsible and make sure you delivered on the pitch. So I feel blessed and privileged by the influences that I had in my life. We talk about influencers now in a different way, don't we?”
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“Would look different. You speak to Paul Gascoigne and ask Paul Gascoigne when he chose Tottenham Over Manchester United and he says that if he'd come to Manchester and work with Sir Alex, he feels as though his career and his life would have gone down a different path. And that's why I said at the very start of this interview, why am I like I am? I was very fortunate that I wasn't in the centre of London at 22, being led by experienced players who wanted to go to nightclubs or to bars. I was in Manchester.”
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“Each struggle. Struggle. I think he really would struggle without Sir Alex's guidance, without the patience of Serelex and Carlos Kiros, who had that patience with him at the time.”
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“Come on, now's not a time to be throwing your arms around. Now's not a time to be walking off the pitch. Now's the time to make sure you lead those people. But he wants to leave. He wants to go and play somewhere else. And that might happen. And you could blame him. He wants to finish his career at a club that's achieving great things. But I do think he is the only player in that dressing room that could lead them because he's the only one that's got the inbuilt resilience and mental strength to get through a moment. It won't be touching him this. Other than on a personal frustration level, the fact that he's playing a team that isn't giving him the chances, the goals, the success he wants. But on a point of view of criticism, he won't be touching him. He's played at Real Madrid. He's played at Manchester United. He's won five, six champions leagues. He's won Ballandor. He's not, you can't touch him with the criticism or words. It's impossible. So he can withstand all this pressure and protect those players on the pitch. That's what I think Roy Keane did with us, what people...”
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“We wouldn't have won the league without the experienced players in that dress room around us and the guidance of Shrelicks Ferguson. They've not got that guidance off the pitch and they've not got that guidance and comfort on the pitch. I used to walk out in the tunnel with Peter Schmichel in front of me, Roy Keene in front of him. Behind me, obviously David Beckham always went behind me, but Dennis Irwin in front of me, I felt safe. I was 21, 22, 23 years of age. I felt safe. felt comfortable because I knew I was being looked after by experienced people and I knew that I wasn't alone. These players go out onto the pitch now. They feel alone. They don't feel like they've got anybody. That's where I am a little bit critical of Cristiano. You're the man, you're the star. You're the best player in the world”
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“Would be outstanding if Sir Alex Ferguson was the manager, if the culture was still there. Honestly, that might be, I don't even know what I've just said, to be fair. I've not said it before, but you know what I'm trying to say. If you surround yourself by those people who've got those standards, who've got that experience, who can cradle you through the difficult moments like we were when we were young players, when people said we won the league with kids, we didn't.”
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“Because if they did Would grow, they would thrive, they would deliver. If the Manchester United team today was David DeHere in goal. Matrice Everett left back, Harry Maguire at centre back with It was me at right back in midfield, there was Roy Keane and Michael On the left was Marcus Rashford, on the right was Jaden Sancho. Up front was Martial with Rooney or Those same five or six players that we're currently saying are not good enough to play for Manchester United.”
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“Because Raphael de Silver from Brazil comes in, I'm the right back that's the senior right back. And who does he look to? He looks to me. He looks to... Poll scales, he looks to Rio Ferdinand, and he sees people that are at the very top of the game, their experience at their end of a career. That's why I looked at Steve Bruce and Brian Robson, Eric Cantonar. I had nowhere to go as a young player. I knew how to do what they had to do because they were all doing it every single day and they've been doing it for 15 years. I do feel sorry for the current players and that won't go down well with a lot of Manchester United fans because a lot of Manchester United fans will say they're overpaid and they're chancing it and bluffing it. They're not. They're not. I know some of those lads. They're good lads. If they were sat here now with me and you, you'd be thinking, there's an element of vulnerability there. There is a lack of confidence. They're crying out for help. I wish they had Sir Alex. I wish they had Roy Keed in the change of room with Namania Vinic and Rio Ferdinand at Centre back and Peter Schmichel in goal.”
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“Museum, it's best in the world. I can't believe what I'm walking through when I see it. And yet, if you go to their training ground, which I've been to, It's an amazing, brilliant facility that is far better than Carrington, where we move to in 2001. We moved to Carrington in 2000, we moved to Carrington. We left the Cliff Trading Ground in Salford. So it's 22 years. We had a bit of investment, but in 20 years, Manchester United had not invested in the stadium. They've not invested in the trading ground that much. And then they've lost the two main people. And before you know it, you've got a club that's really struggling. And I've said that in the last couple of years, the only thing that I really do think can change it now is the ownership. And I say that on here more calmly than I say on Sky Sports, but it's not an emotive subject anymore. It's a very serious issue. There is an embedded rot at the club.”
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“We saw it last night towering up. The main stand now is towering up, and it holds 20,000. Anfield will be a more modern ground than Manchester United and Old Trafford in 12 months. That is unforgivable. To think where not only overtaken us on the pitch, but actually they've overtaken us off the pitch, Manchester City are light years ahead on and off the pitch, totally have invested $1.3 billion in stadium. You've been totally.”
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“The enthusiasm that you need to go into work every single day. I don't believe has been created by the hierarchy at the club. And then there's been a sort of lack of investment into the facilities, into the stadium, into the training ground. So now Tottenham, Liverpool. Liverpool now. Liverpool football. I used to laugh when I used to go to Anfield when I used to compare it to Old Trafford. I used to think they can never catch up. They're too far behind. Just building that second stand now behind that left hand goal where the away fans sit.”
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“Head teacher has left. The board of the governor's left, David Gill, and what's happened since is that they've been replaced with people who haven't got it, and poor standards have just meant that ultimately over a period of time there's become an embedded rot. And that's what's happened. And all that the kids, the players, look now like they haven't got a clue anymore and they're getting poor results. I don't believe all those Manchester United players that are on that pitch are poor players. When they came to the club, some of those players, I was really excited by their arrivals. I've seen players that weren't as good as them go to other clubs and excel. So, the environment, the culture”
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“Yeah, I think it comes down to a lack of leadership and direction from the top and vision and a deterioration of the sort of beliefs over a long period of time. I said last night actually that a school that's underperforming over a long period of time and getting poor results gets put in special measures by Ofsted and by government. They're not blaming the kids. It means that the governors, it means that the sort of the head teachers, the people at the top of the A high performing school.”
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“Dangers of it, it should be something that's taught, it's got to be more useful to them than some of the subjects that they're currently.”
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“So when I come off the pitch last Sunday doing Manchester United, sorry doing West Ham Man City, and I see Manchester United, I bid Franutovich, I used to have to wait till the morning after for the newspaper 15 years ago. Our children aren't like that anymore. They want things instantly. They see things quickly, and they don't like to be instructed. We have to collaborate with them.”
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“Also, to actually my news, my major source of news is Twitter. It's my major source of news in my life. It's really helpful. I don't think as a sports journalist broadcaster, I could live without Twitter. Really important to me. So when people say at Twitter's a cesspit, get off it, there are elements of it that are, but that's a really important thing for me in my life. Because I find all the sort of articles, all the sort of opinions, you know, all the breaking news is there. How can I live without that? It's what I rely upon to be able to do my job.”
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“I like independent thinking. I like them. So when people talk about social media or when people talk about, you know, I was sat with someone yesterday who said, I'm fearing my children go on social media. I always say to them, your children should get good at social media really quickly because they have to. They have to. They have to be good at it. So my children are 13 years of age now. They're all obsessed with social media, with the apps. They're on it all the time. And, you know, sometimes we'll say, you know, that's enough tonight. And, you know, let's come off it. But I want them to get good at it. I want them to use it and find out what information they can trust and what they can't trust. I use Twitter now all the time. One to a debate.”
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“I still like it now, actually. I like her to being told what to do. I actually like it at Sky when people say to me, Gary, we're doing this. I like being told what to do. I respond to it really well because I've had it, to be fair, but I've been instructed from Eric Harrison, Nobby Styles, Brian Kidd, Sir Alex Ferguson. I've been instructed. I lived through the 70s and 80s. You could not live through the 70s and 80s as a child, early 90s, without being instructed, because that was the form of leadership. So we still respond to it a little bit in our own lives. But then when I think about my children, I don't instruct them.”
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“Consequence and punishment, then it'll be the one that you don't want to break them and then you're in a big, you know, you're in big trouble. So it was a good lesson for me. And in football, it's very much a different place than a normal workplace anyway. It doesn't live by HR rules, a football dressing room. It doesn't. Players are still getting fined, players still get told where to be, when to turn up, what to wear. We like it as well.”
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“Thought it's quite clever that. And ever since there are no rules, there are no rules in our business in terms of you must behave, you must do this, you must wear that, you must, you know, I don't expect formality in dress. I expect people to be comfortable. So I don't say you should wear this or you should be here at that time or we've got to do that in any part of my business. I don't create rules anymore because once you create rules for a start, it's rigid. I don't believe it's right. And the rules are there. They're unwritten actually. The rules of sort of working hard and turning up and doing your job, all the things. The rules are there just don't have to be written down. And, you know, he said, what happens if you star player walks in that's breaking? Because the ones that we were talking about that were setting the low standards, he said, what happens if one of the star player walks in and we need to work with the players to make sure that they understand what we expect of them and the standards? We don't need to set rules because if you set rules.”
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“You get fined. It's a fact, you won't accept it. People think Charles Ferguson was like, get after the referees. But if we actually got booked for having to go to referee, we would get fined. So very much quite a rigid thing. And then Roy Hodgson said something to me when I was with England. And I felt those standards were slipping a little bit one time. I can't remember exactly what it was about. And I said, we need some rules. Because we'd had a code of conduct at United. I was the player's rep. I knew what the sort of standards were. Said to me, we don't set rules. He said, Be very careful with rules. He said, because it's always the people that you don't want to break them that break them.”
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“It's interesting because Valentia taught me a lot, but around that time I was with England coaching with Roy Hodson. And I'd lived at United where we were fined. Nunes got sent off last night for headbutting Anderson. That's two weeks wages at Manchester United. I got fined two weeks' wages regularly, four or five times. It happens football. It wouldn't happen in normal workplace, but we know Sir Alex Ferguson's rules if you violent conduct or Chatting back to a referee.”
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“Our office is like, to be fair, this room that we're in here now. So someone could be sat there, someone could be sat there, someone could be sat on the floor over there with a, you know, on a laptop. That's how it should be in an office. It should always be like that, I think. I don't think it ever, I don't think it needed COVID to make modern business act properly with the teams that they work with. So I do feel it's very different than how we were at United, which is old-fashioned. There's still some old-fashioned values. You have to work hard. You have to get the job done. We know that. But why do you have to say that to people? I think people know they have to work hard and get the job done. So why'd you have to say that to them? You're looking to tap into them, make something unique in your business that makes them want to stay, really. That's what you saw. You may want to make it enjoyable”
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“Of a work package that's got like you've got 25 days holiday, you have to book it in. I hate that. I hate the idea of restriction. I hate it. I feel like it's bullying. You must sit there in the office. I hate it. It's not right. It is not right. Don't tell people where to sit, how to work. You know, obviously there is a direction and there is a leadership that's needed, but I just feel it's really not acceptable. And this was pre-COVID.”
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“But now, if I'm in my businesses, so I don't think. I'd never work the first week in January. I think it's the most depressing week of the year. After Christmas, you've had a high and then you go back. It's dark. It's miserable. That first week. So I always take it off. But I always give the rest of our team in the office that I work in off as well. So I don't make people do what I'm not going to do. I'm going away, I think, in three weeks for five days. And I said to everybody in the office, don't worry about the fact you've got 28 days in your contract. Those five days, you're off. Have the last five days off of the summer. Then we'll go for it to Christmas. Also, people have flexible working. They can come in Monday. They don't have to come in Tuesday. They can come in Wednesday. I trust them to do what they want. So there is an element of, yeah, I want, I do expect hard work, but I also want people to have a brilliant time and sharing the success that we have, but also make sure that if I'm off, I would expect that they have those times off as well. Wouldn't expect them to come in. I hate the idea.”
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“Simple as that. I know there's a lot more to it than that, but it is that simple for us. I know then there's the tactics, then there's decision making, then there's sort of concentrate all the things that go with it, but that was the sort of heart, I think, of all the messaging that we got from him.”
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“The only thing you can ever do in life is work as hard as you possibly can and never give in. And he said, You've got that choice every single day. Really simple. That's it. The talent you've got, you just work as hard as you can every single day and never give in. And then you come back the day after and do it again. And that's it. That's the secret to what he believed. Because he said the talent is his problem. Forget talent. I've chosen you to be here. So I'm telling you you've got the talent. Don't you worry about that bit. What I need back in return is that other bit, which is the focus, the commitment, the dedication to make sure every single day you get up and you're here and you give your all and you don't give in. And that's why I think I stayed where I was because I believed him. I trusted in him. And now it's the same. If someone comes into our business and they've been selected to come in, that's because I believe they've got the talent or someone in our scene, the management team believe they've got the talent. All they have to do in return now is go for it and give their all and be enthusiastic and not give in and then come back the day after and do it again. I keep trying to keep it.”
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“Yeah, I don't. I make sure I go and sit in Cafe football in the hotel or I go and sit in the main restaurant that stocks or at Salford. I'll just go and sit in the main office because the idea that basically, no, he did have his own office and he did have his own space. And he did, to be fair, delegate, and he would keep his, but I don't think I'm like Sir Alex in the way in which I now look at my business because I do believe it's very different now. But the staff loved him. Everybody loved him at the club because he protected them. He knew everybody's name He asked about the families. He knew the family's names. He was really, really attentive. He was far better at that than I am. Far better in that than I am, but I probably, to be fair, mix with my teams more than he maybe would. But the work ethic is the thing, honestly.”
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“It was a lack of respect. It's not what you do. We're equal in this football club. We treat each other equally. We look after one another. We make sure that we're sort of compassionate. And the idea of not doing things like that, little things like that. Just little things like that stand out in my mind. So now sometimes I walk into the businesses, and you know what we're like, we sometimes walk in on our phone and we don't say hello to people because with that immersed in our own blinkered sort of space. But then I'll walk past sometimes and I'll realise I've not said hello to someone. I'll go back and say, I'm really sorry, and I'll, you know, I'll say, hey, are you okay? And I do feel like even when in the office, there is no, I sit next to people in the office. I don't sort of have my own.”
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“And Roy Keane was like this as well. So Wendy, every Thursday, we'd have 30 to 40 charity balls that we would sign and then they would go to the children's charities or the different charities in Greater Manchester or in the country. And sometimes you're in a rush, aren't you? You're a football player, you're young. Ah, Wendy, I'll sign him after. I'm in a mad rush. I've got to go and do my stretching. I've got to have a massage. I've got to go have treatment. Whatever it might be that you say on the way in, some poor excuse that you'd give. Or maybe you just generally did. And there was one day where he basically, I think Roy had walked past Wendy and she was a little bit upset and only five players out of the 23 in the squad had signed the balls. And Roy went upstairs and said to Srellis, it's an absolute disgrace. This has happened a couple of weeks now. He killed us. He absolutely killed us. The lack of respect to walk past Wendy, who was there to get the charity bowl signed and not sign them for her, for him was a dereliction of duty.”
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“I suppose Being grounded. He was grounded and he believed in the sort of the work. Work ethic was everything to him. Being proud to work hard, being proud of the people around you who work hard, being proud of your teammates. You used to say, look around the change room, look around. I'm proud of every single one of you, but look at each other. Look at what you each do for each other on the pitch and how you can't achieve what you're going to achieve without each other. So he made us respect each other. Not everybody got on in our changing room, but most of us did. But he tapped into those things all the time. It was non-stop. And being grounded. Looking after people, little things like, Wendy used to get the charity ball signed.”
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“Mean they'd find something to mean they would never give in, and that's what his film's called Never Give In. He never give in, but also the influence.”
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“And there's that difficult moment on a pitch where you think we're struggling here a little bit. Now I think of my youngest daughter when I'm training. What keeps me going to the end of that training session, I think of silly things. If I don't keep going here, someone's going to get my youngest daughter and there's nothing going to get her. So I've got to keep going. And there was my granddad and mum's dad. And I used to think he wouldn't stop going. He came back having been wounded twice and trapped no wounds twice and went back out to fight again. And he had those medals and he would speak to me about it. And I used to think, how can I stop? But he would find that in me. So Alex would push those buttons and press those buttons for someone else. It would become something completely different, I'm sure. It might be talking about the father. It might be talking about him going on strike in the governed shipyards. It might be talking about another experience that he's had, but he would tap into everybody in the dressing room in some way that...”
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“Hit you every single day, and you knew how to tap into here, he knew how to get you, no matter who you were in the dressing room. He always used to get me, I always say this by mentioning my, he used to mention my grandparents. What about your grandparents getting up every single day, putting their tie on, the work that they put in, how they never complained about anything, you know, what they must have lived through, obviously, in the Second World War. And he would say things like that in his team talks, and he would always tap into me because I used to sit with my mum's dad and look at his medals that he got during the Second World War. He'd had three or four wounds. He had shrapnel wounds in his shoulders that he could still show me and bits of metal still in his body. And he would talk to me about the medals and where he got them from and how he'd been in Holland and how he'd sort of had to come back. And then he went back over, how he married my nan on one of his returns back. So that used to get me every single time. So when I used to play for United, when you think about what motivates you, what gets you going? And you used to mention, say, for instance, grandparents.”
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“Thought, oh no, I don't want to see him. We've just lost the European Cup final four days ago. So I drove back around the front and went and got my boots and moved out. But he was there Sunday morning, half six, seven o'clock. The only person in the building with his light on four days after we'd won the European Cup final. And he'd been in his mid-60s. I thought no one can live with that. That's the reason he's winning. That's the reason he's winning because no other manager, no other leader that I know. Four days after that defeat, In his off time in the summer is in his office on a Sunday morning at half past six and he didn't know he didn't know I was coming in obviously and he didn't see me either. I just thought you could just see him in the distance. I couldn't believe it. And it just all those sort of examples of that work ethic.”
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“Was by his actions and what he did. I always remember when I was 30, when did we lose the Champions League final 2009? So I'd have been 34 right near the end of my career. I was doing my. We're playing the Champions League final on Wednesday. We lost. Got back on the Friday From Rome or Thursday or Friday. On the Saturday, I had to go and pick up my boots at Carrington the training ground. So it was a Sunday morning. I had to go pick up my boots at Carrington the training ground to go to St George's Park because I was doing my A license coaching badge and it was my final assessment. And I went in at 7 o'clock in the morning. I'd organised to meet with the caretaker who was basically there on site all the time to let me in. And I parked on the back and his office lights on and he's there in his chair.”
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“Show something in the early days, it was the old school head teacher. No, he's not a head teacher by any stretch of the imagination, but that little bit of fear that you maybe have of your father as well, if your father sort of gets a bit angry with you, you know, that little bit of that dominating male The 70s, 80s, 90s, probably going back beyond that was apparent in Sir Alex Ferguson that, you know, you knew when he walked into the room, the room went quiet. There was that presence, that aura hit the boss's ear. And so you felt it straight away People say to me, sort of, how did you keep coming back every single year and continue to keep winning? What was the secret of that?”
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